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Yes, another moment, and, in my turn, I should have made a fool of myself. This poor mad fellow imagined that he had gone to Illinois and seen people at Vandalia who had known Dirk Peters, and that the latter had disappeared. No wonder, since he had never existed, save in the brain of the novelist! Nevertheless I did not want to vex Len Guy, and perhaps drive him still more mad.
The Calliope was the nearest in; she had the Vandalia close on her port side and a little ahead, the Olga close a-starboard, the reef under her heel; and steaming and veering on her cables, the unhappy ship fenced with her three dangers. About a quarter to nine she carried away the Vandalia's quarter gallery with her jib-boom; a moment later, the Olga had near rammed her from the other side.
III. The Vandalia shall remain the sole property of Mr. George Durrien, the discoverer, and Mr. Noah Jones, his silent partner. "Art. IV. Mr. Noah Jones will take charge of moneys, and pay out what is necessary for the exploration of the mine, he will also sell the product, take charge of the receipts, and have a settlement with his partner every year, when they will divide the net profits. "Art.
Like certain monomaniacs he had come to believe in his own inventions. I was on the point of saying to him, “Show me that letter,” but I thought better of it. Was he not capable of having written the letter himself? And then I answered, “It is much to be regretted, captain, that you were unable to come across Dirk Peters at Vandalia!
One whom he met that winter in Vandalia was destined to play a great part in the history of the nation the Democratic candidate for the office of State attorney for the first judicial district of Illinois; a man four years younger than Lincoln he was only twenty-one at the time; a new-comer, too, in the State, having arrived about a year before, under no very promising auspices either, for he had only thirty-seven cents in his pockets, and no position in view; but a man of metal, it was easy to see, for already he had risen so high in the district where he had settled, that he dared contest the office of State attorney with John J. Hardin, one of the most successful lawyers of the State.
Bim's letter to him bears an endorsement on its envelope as follows: * "This letter was forwarded from Vandalia the week I went out on the circuit and remained unopened in our office until my return six weeks later. A. Lincoln." The day of his return he went to Sarah and Samson with the letter. "I'll get a good horse and start for Chicago to-morrow morning," said Samson.
Lincoln caused to be entered upon its records a paper which excited but little interest at the time, but which will probably be remembered long after the good and evil actions of the Vandalia Assembly have faded away from the minds of men. It was the authentic record of the beginning of a great and momentous career.
The Trenton, guided apparently by an under-tow or eddy from the discharge of the Vaisingano, followed in the course of the Nipsic and Vandalia, and skirted south-eastward along the front of the shore reef, which her keel was at times almost touching. Hitherto she had brought disaster to her foes; now she was bringing it to friends.
I don't think that he will until some big issue comes along. 'I'm not much of a hand at hunting squirrels, he said to me the other day. 'Wait till I see a bear. The people of Vandalia and Springfield have never seen him yet. They don't know him as I do. But they all respect him just for his good fellowship, honesty and decency.
In 1824 he was assigned to duty at the Norfolk navy-yard; and with the exception of a two years' cruise in the Vandalia, on the Brazil station, remained at Norfolk till 1833.
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